Posted on 09/16/2015 7:23:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just in time for tonight’s GOP presidential debate, a consortium of think tanks from nearly 90 countries has released its annual Economic Freedom of the World Report. The report has some good news for much of mankind — economic liberty increased slightly around the globe — but not such good news for the United States, which continues to tumble in the rankings.
As recently as 2000, the United States had the second-freest economy in the world, trailing only Hong Kong. But throughout the Bush and Obama years, we have slipped further and further behind. Last year, we fell out of the top 10, ranking just 12th overall. And this year, we have fallen all the way to 16th. We now squeeze in between 15th-ranked Taiwan and number 17, Romania. Isn’t that wonderful? We are freer than Romania!
Among the countries we are not freer than are some that you might expect, like Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, and Chile, but also some that we don’t normally associate with free markets, like the United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, Jordan, Georgia, and Qatar.
The other countries scoring better than the U.S. were New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The criteria included such items as the size of government, rule of law and property rights, soundness of the money supply, regulation, and free trade.
What accounts for the U.S. decline? Perhaps the biggest factor is the continued growth of government. Americans may be aghast at the big governments of Europe, but we actually rank only 74th in the world in this category (measuring a combination of government spending and tax burden). Seventy-fourth! That’s worse than Egypt, Mexico, and Turkey.
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End the EPA.
End Depts of Education, Housing and Urban Development, IRS, EPA etc. End welfare.
Abolish the NLRB.
Have control of western lands by the Federal government be returned to the States in which they reside, and end the BLM.
Anything that ranks Qatar higher on economic freedom has to be on drugs. Hughly and seriesly on-drugs.
Destroy the GOPe.
They approve of and fund every 0bamanation that undermines the Free Market.
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I'm pretty sure that crowd at NRO don't have my best interests at heart. The hash tag #NRORevolt is full of people showing how they are fake conservatives in many respects.
They Chamber of Commerce type conservatives championed by Forbes and NR are big on free movement of people as an economic freedom. Germnay will probably be going up in the rankings for letting in a million Muslims.
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